Cultural Work examines the conditions of the production of culture. It maps the changed character of work within the cultural and creative industries, examines the increasing diversity of cultural work and offers new methods for analysing and thinking about cultural workplaces. Studying television, popular music, performance art, radio, film production and live performance it offers occupational biographies, cultural histories, practitioners' evidence, considerations of the economic environment as well as new ways of observing and studying the cultural industries.
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Essays which had their origins in the cultural work conference that took place at Coventry University in 1998. Collection of essays which had their origins in the cultural work conference that took place at Coventry University in 1988.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: cultural work, cultural workplace looking at the cultural industries / Andrew Beck Pt. I. Conditions. 1. Back to work: cultural labor in altered times / Graham Murdock Pt. II. Practice. 2. Fingers to the bone or spaced out on creativity? Labor process and ideology in the production of pop / Jason Toynbee. 3. Bodies on the boundaries: subjectification and objectification in contemporary performance / Cathy MacGregor. 4. "I am what I play": the radio DJ as cultural arbiter and negotiator / Steve Taylor Pt. III. Organization. 5. Creativity and economic transactions in television drama production / Dina Berkeley. 6. Mothers returning to television production work in a changing environment / Janet Willis and Shirley Dex. 7. Catastrophic cycles: film and national culture / Sally Hibbin. 8. The music industry as workplace: an approach to analysis / Mike Jones Pt. IV. Representation. 9. An orchid in the land of technology: Walter Benjamin and live performance / Philip Auslander. 10. Office politics: masculinity, feminism and the workplace in Disclosure / Yvonne Tasker. 11. Citizen or TV blip? The politics and pleasure of a televisual semiotic democracy / Robin Nelson.